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Challenges to the Rating System and Closeted Gay Politicians The ratings system of the Motion Picture Association as well as closeted gay politicians have come under challenge by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Kirby Dick in his new film Outrage (see outragethemovie.com). While the MPA has long been comfortable with female nudity and hetero sex, gay sex is still thought to be subversive. “I couldn’t get anyone in the film business to speak about it,” said
Dick, so he went on to reveal the names of the rating members as well as the hypocritical gay politicians, who often vote against gay issues.
Not gay himself, Dick is a civil rights aficionado who did Twist of Faith, about a man abused by a priest, which won the 2004 jury prize at Sundance, as well as Sick: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist (1997), his best know piece. “I try to take a complex subject, and make it comprehensible,” said Dick. “I am very interested in psychology, like these politicians who lead double lives. I have been lucky to work with passionate people, [because these films] are labors of love.”
Another labor of love is showing old restored films. One avid advocate is Martin Scorsese who took the time at the Cannes Film Festival recently to announce his new website, theauteurs.com,. It will carry old films, many free, from the esoteric 1936 Turkish offering, Dry Summer to more well known material like the 1948 British film, Red Shoes.
Another amazing advocate is our own Speakeasy Master Scott who shows 16 mm films from his fantastic collection at the Vortex Room, 1082 Howard (see MYSPACE.COM/THEVORTEXROOM). Next week, on Thursday 21st experience the explosive thrills and chills of the nourish Kiss Me Deadly (1955) at 9:00pm and the sci-fi Beast of Yucca Flats (1961) at 11.